Former PCB chairman Ramiz Raja said the prevailing Indian mindset was to curtail the progress of Pakistan cricket and that the country’s game needed to become financially independent. Raja was speaking at an event at Government College University Lahore.
Ramiz said –
“Unfortunately, what’s happening with India is that there is this BJP mindset over there. The properties that I had announced, be it the PJL or the Pakistan Women’s League, were done so that we could have our own money-making assets that would fund the Pakistan Cricket Board, which would take us away from the ICC’s funding, which is crucial right now.”
Ramiz added – “Our independence gets compromised because most of ICC’s resources are created in India. If India’s mindset is to marginalise Pakistan then we remain neither here nor there.”
Ramiz also said –
He had spoken to the Australia and England cricket boards. And asked them to take a leadership role in the ICC where the organization would not bow down to the pressure of money.
